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So I have been hunting an area for a few years that is hard to access but I know a homeowner who let's me park and access the woods. It is a pretty affluent neighborhood with mostly older non hunters and the only other way other than through peoples yards to the area (public) is at least a mile hike through the woods off a main road. I have seen a couple other hunters and stands but never had a problem. I had a cam set up at my stand and caught a hunter passing by last week. I took the camera out of the woods just the other day to check it. Anyway, I get to my stand, a climber I leave attached at the bottom of a tree where I have left it for the last few years and I notice the elastic strap that holds my feet in the stirrups is not only cut, but a section of it is cut out and left on the stand. It could not have been more than a day since this happened. Fresh cuts. So I managed to fix it McGyver style, check the rest of my straps and climbed up anyway for an afternoon hunt. However, I did take the stand since my guess is it was another hunter, not an anti, who was trying to flush me out of the area and I don't want to find the stand totally ruined. I figure this guy was trying to make it tough for me to climb but didn't want to go so far to destroy the stand completely. Thoughts on this?